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County to dredge Boynton Inlet; Harvey Oyer boat ramp to close briefly
Summary
Palm Beach County officials outlined a maintenance dredging project for the South Lake Worth (Boynton) Inlet that will remove roughly 63,000 cubic yards from interior shoals, cost about $1.9 million and likely require a short closure of the Harvey Oyer Park boat ramp in mid-to-late April.
Palm Beach County officials told the Boynton Beach City Commission on April 1 that routine maintenance dredging at the South Lake Worth Inlet (commonly called the Boynton Inlet) will begin in April and will include work at the Harvey Oyer Park boat channel that will require a temporary closure of the boat ramp.
The county’s coastal resources manager, Andy Stute, said the project will remove about 63,000 cubic yards from interior shoal areas and sand traps and that the current contract price is about $1,900,000, weather- and conditions-dependent. “We should be dredging about 63,000 cubic yards from the interior shoal areas,” Stute told the commission. He said the county expects the narrow Oyer Park channel work to take about one week to two weeks once the contractor reaches that portion of the site.
County staff told the commission they…
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